Study suggests interplay of gene, stress can predict depression
...ion as the world's fourth leading cause of disease burden - years that humans live with disability," says Te...2020 depression will be the first cause of disease burden worldwide and, in the developed world, will be second only to heart disease." To begin to understand...Common treatment for depression is safe and effective for Alzheimer's patients
... and to determine how well the treatment eases the burden of caregivers. According to the National Institute on Aging, up to 4 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease. The disease usually begins after age 60, and risk goes up with age. While younger people also may get AD, it is much less common....... FGF-23 levels appeared to correlate with disease burden and support the notion that FGF-23 production pays an important role in the renal-phosphate wasting syndrome associated with MAS and fibrous dysplasia of bone. In a second independent study in the same issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, ...Academic clinical research is under threat from the EU
...search will grind to a halt under the bureaucratic burden proposed by the EU, according to Jaap Verweij, professor of medical oncology at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. He said that international collaborations on clinical trials were vital for translating the results of laboratory research quickl...NIH funds 'Breast Cancer and the Environmental Research Center' at Fox Chase Cancer Center
...thus contributing to a definitive reduction in the burden of breast cancer."...Scientists, physicians discuss latest discoveries for stopping cancer before it starts
...n of exciting new opportunities to reduce the high burden of cancer on our society by using better diagnostics, predictive markers and personalized medicine," he added. A sea change in the war on cancer is quietly under way in the laboratories of medical centers, research hospitals, universities, governm...Researchers home in on obesity gene and offer explanation for overeating
...d therapeutic approaches that will ease the health burden associated with obesity. "Having identified this gene, it may be possible to develop a screening programme to identify those who may be at risk of becoming obese later in life, and take effective preventative measures." The team compared genome-wide...Ethical guidelines needed before 'nutrigenomic' groceries come to market
...ready huge inequities in health status and disease burden both within developed nations, and especially between developed and developing countries. If nutritional genomics testing turns out to be valuable for health care, there will be pressure on governments to fund the tests. As a general principle, the ...US crackdown on bioterror backfiring
...nia, goes further: "Trying to meet the unwarranted burden of what the government considers 'biosafety' is simply not coincident with the practice of sound, creative scientific research." It is now two years since someone killed five people and created widespread disruption by posting envelopes of anthrax a...Six reporters reach the 'pinnacle of excellence'
...red the struggle in Kazakhstan to the much lighter burden borne by ranchers in the United States, who fear only for the wellbeing of their cattle. Magazines David Ewing Duncan of Wired earned the AAAS Science Journalism Award for magazine entries with his story on the world's first full body gene scan, t...Novel therapies show promise against myeloid leukemia
...white blood cell and platelet counts. The disease burden at CR decreased more significantly after combined therapy as compared to ATRA or As2O3 monotherapy. All 20 patients in the combination therapy group remained in CR while seven of 37 patients treated with monotherapy relapsed after a follow-up of eig...Thailand dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemics spread in waves emanating from Bangkok
...e disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever, place a heavy burden on public health systems. The number of cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Thailand varies widely from year to year. Cummings and his colleagues examined the spatial-temporal dynamics of dengue hemorrhagic fever in a data-set describing 850,000 in...'Bat saliva' drug and new MRI techniques offer hope for acute stroke treatment
...udy, more patients may benefit and reduce stroke's burden of disability, and help more people sustain a near normal life following a stroke-especially those individuals located in rural areas. "This is the biggest breakthrough I've seen in 20 years," says Rowley. "It gives us the ability to treat a large nu...Secondary complications and restoration of function in SCI
...ality of life after SCI and its treatment places a burden on healthcare resources. This article describes the pathogenesis of constipation and its management. The data indicate that colonic motility may be especially depressed during sleep after SCI, and this may exacerbate a sluggish colon transit time. In...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...tail new expenses, nor should it place a financial burden on the authors. The governmental and private institutions that finance the research already pay most of the costs of scientific publishing indirectly - through the funds they provide to research libraries. These same institutions would accomplish far......om Erlangen. This applies to the unexpectedly high burden on the general population due to DEHP as well as to the new discoveries on the metabolic behaviour of this phthalate. The expanded test method used in the DFG project, which provides more precise and more reliable measurements, was also accepted with...Solving the mystery of the dancer mice, and cleft lip too
...rs of multiple surgeries. It also creates a social burden for the person." For tens of thousands of children around the world, the problem has been fixed by volunteers for Operation Smile, a non-profit organization that provides facial reconstruction surgery for indigent children and young adults in the Un...Beware cancer, insomnia and liver disease UH students are taking aim
...partnerships and research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities and medically undeserved populations in the U.S. and its associated territories. Among the 1,500 who attended this ICC symposium, UH students accounted for 18 of the 300 students from across the nation w...Thimerosal, found in childhood vaccines, can increase the risk of autism-like damage in mice
...cines may cause neurotoxicity. Cumulative mercury burden through other sources, including in utero exposures to mercury in fish or vaccines, may also lead to damage in susceptible hosts. Timing and quantity of thimerosal dosing for the mouse model were developed using the U.S. immunization schedule for ch...Improved nutrition could prevent more than half of the world's child deaths annually
...the leading risk factor contributing to the global burden of disease. The researchers said they believe that strategies to prevent undernutrition should be one of the top priorities in the global effort to reduce child mortality. Their study appears in the July 1, 2004, issue of the American Journal of Clin...